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3 Reasons Family Offices Should Crowdfund
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 4:20pm | 383Family offices must stay current with investing trends -- in order to fulfill their missions of protecting capital, generating income and delivering returns that beat the market, or achieve "Alpha." Crowdfunding can allow for family offices to achieve these goals and many more. Here are just...
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3 Reasons Investors Can Be 'Pleasantly Surprised' With Small-Cap Stocks
Friday, March 7, 2014 - 11:34am | 542Men's Journal always has an interesting interview at the end of every issue. Readers can often times find sound advice for investing in it. The interview with James Lee Burke, the Southern noir master, was no different. He was asked what kept him going after repeated rejections for a novel. Mr...
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Learn Big, Earn Big With Small Cap Investing
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 4:59pm | 587A previous article on Benzinga detailed why Warren Buffett's favorite investment was not a multi-billion stake in a blue chip like American Express (NYSE: AXP), IBM (NYSE: IBM) or Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), but the $25 million purchase of See's Candies. Buffett has stated you learn more from the...
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3 Reasons To Invest In Small Caps That Are 'Easy To Understand'
Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - 12:52pm | 526In a recent Kiplingers magazine, there is an article by Nellis S. Huang about top small-cap mutual funds. The Homestead Small-Cap Company Stock fund, one of the best, is praised as it "...favor(s) businesses that are easy to understand." For individuals, there are three reasons to invest in these...
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The Main Reason All Investors Should Own Small Cap Stocks
Monday, November 18, 2013 - 2:48pm | 584While legendary investor Warren Buffett has prospered from blue chip holdings such as Coca-Cola (NYSE: K), ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) and Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), his favorite investment was a company that cost $25 million to acquire, See's Candies. In an interview in Fortune magazine, the "Oracle of...
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Chasing Value: WD-40 -- A Buyout Candidate?
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 2:56pm | 133If there ever was a company that could and should be bought out, it's WD-40 (NASDAQ: WDFC). The company has been doing well in these tough times, and guidance is for more of the same. Perhaps that is because almost every household in America probably has a can of WD-40 in the utility closet, garage...